Rafiki

Director Wanuri Kahiu creates a lyrical ode to finding a kindred spirit amidst an uncaring majority...

...director Kahiu demonstrates a delicate touch when she enhances Kena and Ziki’s early euphoric attraction to one another...

Mugatsia and Munyiva have an easy, unfussy chemistry that overcomes some creakier moments of dialogue. They’re matched by some dreamy visuals..

...blissfully unique in its sense of place and atmosphere of floating just outside of reality.